| MD | HB277 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, to develop and distribute guidelines on a trauma-informed approach to assist schools with understanding and resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 148 |
| MD | HB847 | Pass | Establishing the State Coordinator for Autism Strategy in the Department of Disabilities and the Advisory Stakeholder Group on Autism-Related Needs; requiring the State Coordinator, in consultation with the Advisory Stakeholder Group, to identify and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB604 | Pass | Renaming the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to be the Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled; and altering the appointed membership of the Maryland State Library Board to include a blind patron of the Maryland Li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 272 |
| MD | HB404 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Commerce in a certain annual report on economic development programs to include information for minority business enterprises on the number of enterprises that received assistance from each economic development program and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 194 |
| MD | HB852 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from applying a deductible, a copayment, or coinsurance to coverage for certain preventive care screening services for prostate cancer; and applying th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 343 |
| MD | HB837 | Pass | Altering the purposes of the Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program; requiring the Program to establish and provide an evidence-based implicit bias training program for health care professionals involved in the perinatal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 337 |
| MD | HB917 | Pass | Altering the basis on which a person is prohibited from taking certain actions against a certain person or group, to include certain actions motivated either in whole or in part by another person's or group's race, color, religious beliefs, sexual or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 367 |
| MD | HB1196 | Pass | Repealing an exemption for certain check cashing services from provisions of law governing the licensure of check cashing services; authorizing a person to provide check cashing services without obtaining a certain license by registering each year wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 443 |
| MD | HB1514 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to take certain actions related to certain protections and remedies for certain employees; prohibiting a supervisor, appointing authority, or the head of a principal unit of State government from taking or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 483 |
| MD | HB1444 | Pass | Defining "race", for the purposes of certain laws prohibiting discrimination, to include certain traits associated with race, including hair texture and certain hairstyles; and defining "protective hairstyle" as a hairstyle including braids, twists, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 473 |
| MD | HB521 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide technical assistance to small businesses in the State seeking grants under certain federal program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 231 |
| MD | HB514 | Veto | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program to foster job creation and economic development in the State by promoting commercialization of research, facilitating technology transfer, and enco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-07
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB754 | Engross | Requiring a county board of education to waive high school graduation requirements established by the county board that are in addition to high school graduation requirements established by the State Board of Education for a student in foster care or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB540 | Engross | Allowing certain qualified businesses impacted by the construction of the Purple Line light rail project in Montgomery County and Prince George's County a credit against the State income tax; requiring the Department of Commerce, in consultation with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HJ8 | Intro | Urging the members of the United States Congress to enact federal legislation or propose a constitutional amendment granting legislative autonomy and statehood to the District of Columbia; and providing that copies of the Resolution be forwarded by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Favorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations |
| MD | HB1474 | Engross | Requiring that the pay rate for certain employees at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital be at least two grades higher than the employee's pay rate effective June 30, 2020; requiring that the pay rate for certain employees in the Behavioral Health Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB313 | Engross | Providing, under certain circumstances, that the provisions of the Minority Business Enterprise Program apply to public-private partnerships; prohibiting the Board of Public Works from approving a public-private partnership agreement until the report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1036 | Engross | Requiring certain employers of commercial motor vehicle drivers to provide the USDOT number of any entity currently owned by the employer and certain website addresses to a prospective employee driver on a bona fide offer of employment; and providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1075 | Engross | Repealing a prerequisite that a public school employee who is subject to a certain prohibited personnel action relating to an act of whistleblowing must exhaust any administrative remedies before instituting a civil action against a public school emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1249 | Engross | Requiring the public-private partnership agreement for the I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership Program to include certain provisions; authorizing certain revenues derived from certain tolls to be distributed to a certain special fund to be bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Third Reading Passed (97-36) |
| MD | HB292 | Intro | Expanding to all counties in the State a prohibition on State agencies constructing within the nine Eastern Shore counties a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge without the consent of a majority of the affected counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB328 | Engross | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website; requiring certain discipline-related data to be available as a data download; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB568 | Engross | Requiring each correctional facility to disseminate certain written information directly to each eligible voter regarding voter registration, absentee voting, and certain applications and provide an absentee ballot to an eligible voter on request; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB406 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended for longer than 30 minutes without access to continuous suitable shelter during extreme weather conditions, subject to certain exceptions; making a violation a civil offense; applying cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB772 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee in consultation with the Departments of the Environment, Agriculture, General Services, and other stakeholders, to develop, by January 1, 2022, a certain methodology for State agencies to estimate gre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, to report certain data and information for each alternative school within its jurisdiction to the State Department of Education; requiring the Department, on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB208 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education to ensure that each public school provide, at no charge to students, menstrual hygiene products via dispensers in the restrooms at the school; requiring a public middle or high school to install menstrual hygi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB368 | Engross | Requiring the Governor to include certain appropriations in the State budget from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Maryland Transit Administration for certain operating and capital needs of the Administration in certain fiscal years; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB515 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education to submit, beginning on July 1, 2021 and each July 1 thereafter, a report to the State Board of Education, the Governor, and certain legislative committees on the ratio of students to certain staff members at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB561 | Engross | Applying certain laws regarding net energy metering and community solar generating systems to customers served by a community choice aggregator; altering the circumstances under which counties and municipal corporations may act as an aggregator; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB764 | Engross | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a victim, witness, or suspect in an investigation during the course of an investigation that the officer is conducting, supervisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1011 | Engross | Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of the Maryland Higher Education Outreach and College Access Pilot Program; altering the title of the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $100,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1113 | Engross | Requiring the Procurement Improvement Council to provide a forum to discuss the use of eMaryland Marketplace and compliance with certain provisions of law; and requiring the Council to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB878 | Intro | Establishing the Family Connects Home Visiting Pilot Program in Prince George's County to provide, improve, and study the effects of home visiting services for eligible households; defining "eligible household" as one located in Prince George's Count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB812 | Intro | Awarding a diminution credit of 90 days to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate if the inmate successfully obtains a certain educational certificate, diploma, or degree; prohibiting an inmate who is serving a certain sexual offense from receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Motion Recommit to Committee (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted |
| MD | HB979 | Engross | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction to include in a certain report certain statistics related to the cost of living of inmates at certain facilities; and requiring the Division of Correction to include in a certain report regarding Maryland Corr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB224 | Engross | Requiring certain taxpayers to add a certain deduction for gains from sales or exchanges of qualified opportunity zone property back to federal adjusted gross income to determine Maryland adjusted gross income; requiring certain taxpayers to add a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross | Prohibiting a local school system from charging a student a fee for enrollment in a summer school course if the student attends a school in the local school system, credit for the course is a high school graduation requirement, and the student has pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB403 | Engross | Requiring the Attorney General, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to develop guidelines to assist public schools, hospitals, and courthouses to draft policies that limit civil immigration enforcement activities on their premises in order to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB550 | Engross | Increasing, from 10 grams to 1 ounce, the amount of marijuana below which possession is a civil offense, rather than a criminal offense; and creating a presumption that a person in possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana is not in violation of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB842 | Engross | Authorizing the juvenile court to refer a certain matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a certain informal adjustment if the time for a certain adjudicatory hearing has been waived and the petition is not the result of an unsuccessful inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1079 | Engross | Requiring the Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease to work in conjunction with members of the medical community in leading a certain comprehensive education and treatment program; requiring the Maryland Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB699 | Engross | Establishing the Special Education Ombudsman in the Office of the Attorney General to serve as a resource for information and support to parents, students, and educators regarding special education rights and services; requiring the Ombudsman to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB334 | Intro | Defining "mortgage lender" to mean a person that is duly licensed under certain provisions of the Financial Institutions Article; clarifying the definition of "consumer claim"; and declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the Act be construe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB775 | Intro | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty at Baltimore City Community College; altering certain exceptions to the applicability of certain provisions of law governing collective bargaining for employees of Baltimore City Community Col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB868 | Intro | Designating the day after Thanksgiving as American Indian Heritage Day and a public school holiday; requiring public schools to devote part of at least one day to appropriate exercises for American Indian Heritage Day; designating September 17 for Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1143 | Intro | Prohibiting an employer from disqualifying an individual employed under contract with the employer from subsequent employment with the employer under certain circumstances; authorizing a certain individual to bring a civil action in a certain court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB333 | Intro | Repealing a certain exception that allowed an insurer to cancel or refuse to renew coverage for homeowner's insurance based on weather-related claims if there were three or more weather-related claims within a certain time period; and requiring that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB660 | Intro | Establishing the Lifeline Low-Cost Automobile Insurance Program to offer certain low cost insurance policies to residents of Baltimore City and Prince George's County who are in households with a gross annual household income not exceeding 300% of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB731 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Transportation, the Maryland Transit Administration, and Purple Line Transit Partners, LLC, to donate any property acquired but not used for the construction or operation of the Purple Line light rail project to the govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
